Trouble Magnet is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.


Copyright © 2006 by Thranx, Inc.


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Foster, Alan Dean.

Trouble magnet : a Pip & Flinx adventure / Alan Dean Foster.

p. cm.

eISBN-13: 978-0-345-49552-5

eISBN-10: 0-345-49552-5

1. Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization)—Fiction. 2. Pip (Fictitious character : Foster)—Fiction. 3. Flinx (Fictitious character)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3556.O756T755 2006

813'.54—dc22 2005056949


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